With 3/5ths of the roster calling in sick , it falls to Brandon and Josh to volley words back and forth for your aural pleasure. (Oh stop it, I said aural.) This week’s heady discussions (come on guys I said stop it) include the cultural baggage behind the term “gamer,” the questionable ease of acceptance and passionate defense of nerd culture, two grown men discussing tumblr as if they just wandered out of a cave, and a generous amount of praise and enthusiasm for Doctor Who and Homestuck. Plus, some listener emails– including some new “JKPleasant” submissions!

There’s that. Then there’s also the lack of video game announcements(those seem to be the most consistent commentary creator) to be discussed because that industry has gone into holiday move the product mode as opposed to hype mode.
Con Season has pretty much ended, so no announcements/discussion points coming from that.
School has started back and classes, extracurriculars and homework should take precedence to talking on a podcast’s comments page.
Its Fall Premieres, why comment on JKP when one can talk about new awful shows like Emil Owens, M.D., The Neighbors, Guys With Kids, make bets on how long each will last before being cancelled and if there are any cancellations that are undeserved?
Also, Sports is a thing that has started. Probably not a huge fan overlap, but The Baseball is winding down and The Footballs, “real” and fantasy, are beginning to start and that could take precious free time fro the JPK commentators.

Want to get into Dr. Who? A friend of mine came up with that, supposedly, has never failed to create a new fan; he calls it “The Prescription.” Here it is:
THE MAIN INTRO
1 -- Season 5, Episode 1 (The Eleventh Hour)
2 -- Season 2, Episode 4 (The Girl in the Fireplace)
3 -- Season 3, Episode 10 (Blink)

THE NEXT REQUIRED VIEWING
4 -- Season 4, Episodes 8 & 9 (Silence in the Library & Forest of the Dead)
5 -- Season 5, Episodes 2-12 (Completing Season 5)

Technically only main intro is “required” and everything else is just a recommendation.

I’ve provided Ross with a huge list of comics he should read and would probably enjoy. I’ve pointed out trades to him before. I’ve offered to burn some scans for him. To my knowledge, he still has yet to buy any though. I don’t know what his damn problem has been.

For some reason(shame, embarrassment, regret) Tiptoes isn’t on Netflix despite being a fantastic movie that everyone should see once. Not fantastic the way they wanted(ie a touching, compelling story), but still fantastic. What about Peter Dinklage’s role in 30 Rock? I think a shame that only Peter Dinklage can get the good midget roles.

Is this “later” as in “never” like the last versus lists(group and individual) I sent about a year ago, or “later” as in “actually gonna happen?” Just need to know for portioning out the slush file.

On the topic of love triangles and romantic tension’s effect on popularity, I won’t dispute that it is usually successful, Josh gave a good example with Avatar, and I think the same can be said about Adventure Time to some degree, but I also think we’ve gotten to the point that creators don’t necessarily need to use these techniques to achieve a large fanbase. Tumblr and other communities will still latch onto a thing and cram in their perceptions of romance and sexuality, regardless of merit.

Eiichiro Oda has openly stated that he won’t include any romance in One Piece, but that won’t stop his fans from doing it for him. Same goes for tame TV and Movies like Gravity Falls and The Lorax. I was pretty sure there was no sexual tension between The Lorax and The Once-ler, but Tumblr proved me to be sorely fucking mistaken…

The Once-ler fandom, in its astonishing sincerity, is the most insane and unsettling fandom I have ever stumbled upon. I have to remind myself that it’s not a Something Awful prank and is, rather, a very real thing every time.

now maybe its because i watched cartoons from a very early age and i watched them for far too long of a period in my life or because i come from canada and our tv scheduling is different here, but when you guys talk about rugrats and ahh real monsters, and stuff like that i remember watching that stuff when it first hit the airways at the same time as doug, johnny bravo and cow and chicken was also coming out as “Brand New”. But then again, when i was growing up, we had one television network for kids called YTV or more accurately “Youth television”. it was pretty bitchin back in the day. later we got other channels like fox which aired cartoons on saturday morning, among the other channels like abc, or cbc. and then much later we got channels like teletoon, which aired which was this weird mish mash of canadian programming and american programming. now i should mention by time teletoon hit the air, satellite and cable packages were really gaining popularity in canada and people were for the most part just starting to order stuff in from the states like cartoon network and other fine channels. but by that time (for me anyways) i was starting to get to the age where watching cartoons wasn’t really socially acceptable, and my folks didn’t feel like spending the money to get the 5000 channels when we’d only ever really want to watch like 6 channel in particular.

anyway, tl:dr -- all those shows came out at the same time for me, so i found it really strange that you were presenting it as a time line of sorts. did i just watch a shit ton of cartoons back in the day or is canadian programing just that messed up?